I Went To The Natural History Museum With The iPhone 6 Plus — And I Was Blown Away By How Good The Camera Was

Jay Yarow Over the weekend, me and some of my friends participated in a scavenger hunt at the Natural History Museum in New York.

(We tied for first, but lost on the tie-breaker question, thanks for asking.)

The museum, if you've never been, is amazing.

While running around, I decided to snap a photo of some elephants it had on display with my iPhone 6 Plus. It was pretty dark, so I wasn't expecting much. The photo came out stunningly clear.

I decided to take a bunch of other photos. It seemed like a good test, since the lighting is pretty poor for the most part. And, it's a good example of where you want a camera to work well. There are lots of cool things to see, and if you have kids, you'll want pictures of those kiddies in the museum.

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Let's start at the beginning. This was the first photo I took that impressed me.

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I used the iPhone 6 Plus's photo editing to lighten the photo, and it looks incredible. It's clear and bright. Even brighter than it was in reality, but it doesn't look to blown out or fuzzy.

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The rest of these photos have no retouching or editing at all.

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Here's an ape of some sort.

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Here's our team walking through the museum.

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The contrast in these photos looks pretty good to me.

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Easter Island thing comes out in the low light.

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Here's a photo of some Native American stuff, with reflections of people in the museum. Pro tip: If you want to seem like a good photographer, have reflections in your photos.

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These are just some random folks that were sitting in the museum. I took this one to illustrate how the camera deals with shadows.

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Mammoth.

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I should have written down what I was looking at, because I forget now.

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Some random folks.

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Dinosaurs!

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T-Rex!

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More dinosaur!

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Our team is stunned to figure out the answer to a clue.

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And here's a shot of some birds hanging from the ceiling.

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Here we are waiting to get on an elevator. Pretty decent clarity for pretty weak lighting.

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The hall of biodiversity!

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The whale!

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This was a big, old tree.

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Close up of some crystals.

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NSFW!

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Skulls.

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These guys.

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What's up?

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A guy doing some nice illustrations. I took this as a creep shot, but you can see how crisp it looks.

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And finally, here's a look at how the camera can adjust its lighting. This is our team when focus is on them.